Credibility Challenge
Credibility Challenge The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. How can election support shape the incentives of…
Specifikacia Credibility Challenge
Credibility Challenge
The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. How can election support shape the incentives of domestic actors to engage in or abstain from violence? So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence.Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence?
And, which type of support--observation or technical assistance--is better in each instance? Does support help reduce violence or increase it? The Credibility Challenge pulls broad quantitative evidence and qualitative observations from Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to respond to these questions.
Von Borzyskowski finds that